Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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